That's my resolution this year. Not as a hobbit lass, or a lady of Rohan, or even the redneck elf Keywen.
As me.
As Samwise Gamgee once said, “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
Mr. Tolkien had it the right way around. And I want to remember that this year.
When the challenges I faced seem to overcome me, I thought I couldn't fight. But I was not created to be a victim.
Even if I can't attack my challenges with a sword, or defeat them with my pen, I can always choose to fight back.
So this year I am striving to make it to the days when the sun shines out the clearer and brighter because the shadow has been driven back. It may come again, but every time I defeat it I am that much stronger.
I was not made to give up. I was made to try again.
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher